Anti-terror operation in Gurdaspur ends, all terrorists killed
With the killing of all the three terrorists holed up inside Dina Nagar police station in Gurdaspur, Punjab government declared the operation to be over at 5 pm, exactly 12 hours after the terror attack.
In the first major terror attack in the state in eight years, the terrorists, suspected to be members of either Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) or Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), launched a pre-dawn strike targeting a roadside eatery, passenger bus and later barged into the Dinapur police station. The terrorists killed eight persons-- three civilians, Superintendent of Police (Detective), Baljit Singh, a Punjab provincial service officer, two home guards and two policemen. READ: Terrorists shoot at 16-year-old wrestler before heading to police station || READ: High alert along Jammu-Kathua highway, security stepped up ||READ: Himachal Pradesh sounds alert after Gurdaspur attack || Gurdaspur Terror Attack in Punjab: Visuals, Eye Witness Account